Overview of Farms Participating in the Canadian Agricultural Income Stabilization (CAIS) Program, 2004

Farm Analysis Bulletins (FAB) are undertaken to provide a better understanding of Canadian agriculture at the farm level. Using data from various sources such as Census, Farm Financial Surveys (FFS), Taxfiler, NISA database, etc, FAB's provide information on farm situation as well as highlighting and discussing farm related issues. This bulletin provides an overview of farms that participated in the 2004 Canadian Agricultural Income Stabilization (CAIS) program. Charts and tables with a brief accompanying text are used to describe participants in the CAIS Program. Business focussed farms as well as farms whose main source of income was agricultural product sales were more likely to participate in the CAIS Program.